Edgar Wright Quotes
When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
Quotes to Explore
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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I'm at a point where there isn't any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it messed up my timing a little bit - the draw, bringing it back, then the release.
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If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.
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When you are a part of a world that is within an enclosed system, the biggest threat is that the loss of contact with any voice from the outside - a point of reference that is different from you - becomes habitual. The loss of this reference makes the enclosed system seem perfect. I can still feel this kind of threat today, the voice that gives legitimacy to various kinds of enclosure.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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It's the stickiness of earth that makes it problematic - the way it stains your straps and ingrains your hands so you can't quite tell where you start and stop.
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I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.
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When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
